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2018
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Student
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Title
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Adviser
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| Shayna Avila |
Basalt Correlation in the Sylvania Mountains, California, by X-Ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy, (X.R.F.) |
J.Knott |
| John Ayers |
The Half Dome granodiorite on the east side of the Tuolumne intrusive complex, Yosemite National Park, California: Big or small magma chambers? |
Memeti |
| Sabrina Green |
Investigating magma plumbing systems and volcanic-plutonic connections in the Iron Mountain pendant, Sierra National Forest, California |
Memeti |
| E. Gutierrez |
Investigating the volcanic-plutonic connection using geochemistry in the Minarets Caldera, eastern central Sierra Nevada mountain range, California |
Memeti |
| E. Jimenez |
Correlation of basalts in Fish Lake Valley CA/NV using X-Ray Fluorescence |
J.Knott |
| Amber Walker |
Basalt Correlation in the Sylvania Mountains, California and Nevada |
J.Knott |
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2017
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| Alexander Arita |
Examining the geochemical relationships between the Twentynine Palms and Queen Mountain plutons in Joshua Tree National Park |
Memeti |
| Eduardo Chavez |
Exploring Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (L.I.B.S.) for use in geologic provenance studies |
Memeti |
| Jovany Estrada |
Using zircon trace element signatures to evaluate the nature of Middle Jurassic magmatism within the southern forearc of the Sierra Nevada arc |
D.Clemens-Knott |
| Lizzeth Flores |
Understanding the petrogenesis of the Twentynine Palms Quartz-Monzonite in Joshua Tree National Park using K-feldspar megacrysts |
Memeti |
| Joseph Gutierrez |
Yosemite: A virtual field trip |
Bursztyn |
| Danielle Jackson |
Playing in the sand: The Augmented Reality sandbox as an interactive topographic lesson |
Bursztyn |
| Zoe Kohler |
Age, petrography, and geochemistry of the Tubatulabal volcanic suite, southwestern Kern Plateau, southern Sierra Nevada mountains, California |
D.Clemens-Knott |
| Anthony Mistretta |
Using zircon trace element signatures to evaluate a subset of Late Jurassic detrital zircons from within the Sierra Nevada arc |
D.Clemens-Knott |
| Angelic Perez |
What motivates questionable interactions between humans and protected lands that result in destructive behavior? |
Bursztyn |
| Hogan Rangel |
Statistical analysis of the relationship between coastal precipitation and desert precipitation across southern California |
Kirby |
| Veronica Smith |
Geochemical and petrographic relations between mafic intrusions in post-Peach Spring tuff deposits in the southern Black Mountains, Meadow Creek basin, near Oatman, Arizona |
D.Clemens-Knott |
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2016
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| Michaela Adler |
Constraining the age of the Eocene Talega bonebed through microfossil vertebrate index taxa |
Parham |
| Andrea Arevalo |
Using Ostracods in Silver Lake, California, to reconstruct past hydrologic variability |
Kirby |
| Amanda Avalos |
Modern sedimentation rates along the central California continental shelf |
Carlin |
| Mauricio Avila |
Major, minor, and trace element analysis of the Montney Formation, Peace River Embayment (eastern Alberta, Canada) following the Permian-Triassic mass extinction |
Woods |
| Christopher Baker |
Applying apatite detrital fisson-track thermochronology to evaluate exhumation in southern Alaska |
Armstrong |
| Michelle Barboza |
Vertebrate fauna and ungulate biostratigraphy of the highly fossiliferous Oso San member, Capistrano Formation, Orange County, California |
Parham |
| Sam Bergeland |
Post Permian-Triassic extinction productivity and paleooxygenation from analysis of trace elements from the Peace River Embayment region of eastern Alberta, Canada |
Woods |
| Dominic Chaulk |
Gravity analysis to determine the subsurface geometry of the Sierra Nevada frontal fault system in Owens Valley |
Armstrong |
| Shawn Colby |
Nature of organic carbon associated with Miocene carbonate concretions of the Monterey Formation |
Loyd |
| Crystal Cortez |
An articulated skeleton of a Carcharodon Hastalis from the Monterey Formation, Orange County, California |
Parham |
| Brian Fullaway |
Trace element analysis of the Lower Triassic Montney Formation of southwestern Alberta: Productivity and oxygen levels following the Permian-Triassic mass extinction |
Woods |
| Brian Gadbois |
Fault orientations of the Sierra Nevada frontal fault zone in the vicinity of Lone Pine, California: Implications for Basin and Range extension |
Armstrong |
| Adrian Garibay |
New species of the StemSeal Allodesmus from the Middle Miocene Topanga Formation of Orange County |
Parham |
| Andrew Grabow |
The Ely Springs Dolomite in the Nopah Range, eastern California and western Nevada |
Woods |
| Brenna Hess |
Reconstruction of fire and climate from the Ford Lake sediments: southeast Mojave Desert, California |
Kirby |
| Nancy Ibarra |
Drilling methodology: A field guide and its use for the drilling industry |
Laton |
| Stephen Jones |
Dynamic analysis of Long Canyon in Desert Hot Springs, California |
Rhodes |
| Jacob Katona |
Geochemistry of basalts in the White Mountains and Horse Thief Hills, California |
D.Clemens-Knott |
| Natalie Law |
Using geochemistry to establish the connection between dacites and rhyolites of the Bonanza tuff, San Juan volcanic field, CO |
Memeti |
| Enrique Lopez |
Possible ophiolite slivers embedded in the southwestern Sierra Nevada batholith, Kern and Bakersfield Counties, California |
D.Clemens-Knott |
| Scott Lowery |
Investigating the magma processes responsible for the compositional variation in the northeastern Cathedral Peak lobe in Yosemite National Park |
Memeti |
| Baolong (Lucas) Lu |
Identification of a methane carbon source for organic carbon contained in salt dome cap rocks of the Gulf Coast |
Loyd |
| Anthony Macias |
Trace elemental analysis of productivity and oxygenation conditions within the western Canada sedimentary basin following the Permian-Triassic mass extinction |
Woods |
| Ryan McKay |
Searching for the source rock of cogstones in southern California |
Memeti |
| Megan Murphy |
A 1300 year run-off reconstruction from Crystal Lake in the San Gabriel mountains of southern California |
Kirby |
| Anthony Natividad |
Hydrogeological survey of a mountainous region: The significance of monitoring water resources |
Laton |
| Dalin Nguyen |
Palaeocurrents and provenance of the Mae Rim Formation, Chiang Mai Basin, northern Thailand |
Rhodes |
| Tracy Nguyen |
1300 years of hydroclimatic change recorded in Crystal Lake sediments |
Kirby |
| Julie Ortiz |
Analysis of trace element variations of sedimentary rock samples from the western Canada sedimentary basin following the Permian-Triassic mass extinction |
Woods |
| Sierra Patterson |
Locating the volcanic source region of prehistoric cogged stones from southern California |
Memeti |
| Trevor Slazas |
Constraining environmental conditions along the northern margin of Laurentia during the Late Ordovician: An analysis of the Ely Springs Dolomite in eastern California |
Woods |
| Matan Salmon |
Rate and timing of exhumation in the Copper River corridor, western Chugach mountains, southern Alaska |
Armstrong |
| Amanda Shellhorn |
Evaluation of the contact relationships between the eastern Sierra Nevada and basaltic flows near Big Pine, CA |
Armstrong |
| Rebecca Steever |
Evaluating a potential connection between the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous Osa Creek Ring complex and the Blackrock andesite, southern Sierra Nevada, California |
D.Clemens-Knott |
| Corey Stout |
Reconstruction of hydrologic variability during the last 1,200 years using sediments from Ford Lake in the Mojave Desert, California |
Kirby |
| Russ Tinnell |
Petrology of the Bodfish pluton, southern Sierra Nevada mountains, California |
D.Clemens-Knott |
| Christine Tong |
Documenting recovery from a deep water, Middle Triassic section from Fossil Hills, Humboldt Range locality, southern Canyon, Nevada |
Bonuso |
| Bayne Westrick-Snapp |
Carbon geochemistry of Miocene aged concretions of the Castaic Formation |
Loyd |
| Alex Woodward |
Did alpine glaciers exist on Sugarloaf mountain during the last glacial (San Bernardino Mountains, California)?? |
Kirby |
